Old Vine in new bottle (Android)

Vine for Android is finally here. Twitter announced this on their blog yesterday. Quote from their blog  "Android owners running 4.0+ can download Vine from Google Play. Keep an eye on @vineapp and our blog for updates, and please do share your feedback –– we’re reading it all." Vine for Android has a new Zoom feature which is not present in the IOS version Vine is a mobile app that enables its users to create and post video clips. Video clips created with Vine have a maximum length of 6 seconds and can be shared or embedded on social networking services such as Twitter—which acquired the app in October 2012 . Vine claims to have more than 13 million users on IOS platform. Check out my first Vine post.

Introducing Vine for Android. vine.co/v/b3v5h3Piwt7 — Vine (@vineapp) June 3, 2013

WebM VP9, the new video standard from Google

In 2009 Google acquired On2 technologies that created a series of Video codecs. In 2010 Google

 announced the launch of WebM using On2 proprietary codec called VP8 and made it open  source. At the latest I/O conference Google has announced that it will be releasing VP9 shortly. Youtube has already been experimenting with these codecs for some time now.

Are animated images the future of sports/news reporting?

The launch of Vine.co (a Twitter company) which allows people to upload 6 seconds videos has resulted in unexpected innovation elsewhere in sports reporting. While Vine videos are in flash with audio, some sites are innovating by uploading short clips in an animated Gif format.

One site that does this regularly is Business Insider. I have uploaded one pic from their site below, you can see more on this link